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Category Archives: Academia
‘The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024’
James Manzi does something deceptively simple in his new paper. He stops asking who professors are and starts asking what the university produces. By coding roughly 600,000 English-language social science abstracts published between 1960 and 2024 against a fixed 2025 … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Rony Guldmann, Stephen Turner
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Decoding The Wharton Finance Department
Tenured full professors, the Department Chair, the Senior Vice Dean for Finance, the Academic Directors of the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program and Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center, and the senior hiring-committee gatekeepers at the Wharton Finance Department do not … Continue reading
UCLA and the Logic of the Three-Organism Machine
Deans, department chairs, and senior faculty at UCLA do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Serving the Public Good, Equity and Excellence, World-Class Research for California, Health Equity for Los Angeles, … Continue reading
Academic Life as a Mad Hazard: Contingency, Selection, and the Illusion of Merit
Academic life is a mad hazard. Stephen Turner is not being colorful. He is stating a structural fact. Careers, ideas, and entire disciplines develop under conditions where outcomes depend on timing, networks, institutional moods, and small accidents that could easily … Continue reading
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The Camouflage Imperative
Biosocial scientists and anyone who takes the heritable, evolutionary component of human behavior seriously are operating in an environment engineered for asymmetric punishment under uncertain evidence. Modern elite institutions, especially academia but also large segments of media, foundations, NGOs, and … Continue reading
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What Did Michigan Get for $250 Million? Nine Years, $250 Million, and Flat Black Enrollment at the University of Michigan
In March 2025, University of Michigan President Santa Ono announced the closure of the central Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion, ending the DEI 2.0 strategic plan and redistributing student-facing services into … Continue reading
Why is college sports such a big deal in the USA and nowhere else?
The prominence of college sports in the United States results from a symmetry between historical timing, geography, and legal frameworks. Most countries developed professional sports clubs in dense urban centers during the industrial era. These clubs formed the foundation of … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Academic Podcast Authority
Academic podcasters do not compete for authority by saying they want power, prestige, or income. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as rigor, intellectual honesty, public service, and resistance to misinformation. This is the core insight … Continue reading
Decoding The Stimson Center
Technical expertise, in the Stimson world, works less like a credential than a lock. When analysts frame nuclear proliferation through the language of “verification regimes” and “confidence-building measures,” they do not simply describe a problem. They define who gets to … Continue reading
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018)
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber is a book that many people find compelling because it names something real. Everyone has sat in a meeting that could have been an email, or watched a colleague generate reports no one … Continue reading
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